The wealthy elites and CEOs on Wall Street, Big Pharma and the like will continue to suck us dry. Watch Redacted Tonight host Lee camp provide the dark, disturbing proof. Also, despite the total lack of news coverage, the TPP is no more thanks to the work of activists. And there’s been a heroic victory…

On this episode of “Watching the Hawks” Tyrel Ventura and Tabetha Wallace take a look at our trillion dollar police state. Karen Greenberg, author of “Rogue Justice,” joins us to talk about how the security state is usurping US sovereign power. Finally, Sean Stone sits with Bill Binney, former NSA whistleblower, to talk about his…

OPEC is pushing non-OPEC members to join its oil output reduction. Ameera David has the details. Then, Bianca Facchinei takes a look at new statistics from the CDC, showing a slight decrease in U.S. life expectancy. Afterwards, Jim Rickards, author of new book “The Road to Ruin,” tells Ameera what he expects from a Donald…

The sales include a $3.51-billion deal for Boeing-produced CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopters sold to Saudi Arabia, and $3.5 billion for AH-64E Apache attack helicopters purchased by the United Arab Emirates. Morocco has been cleared to buy TOW 2A anti-tank missiles, along with associated logistical support, for $108 million.
The figures bring the Defense Security Cooperation…

Japan has launched an experimental space scavenger into orbit that will study the possibility of getting rid of cosmic junk caused by over half a century of space exploration.
More than 500,000 pieces of “space junk” are circling our planet and being tracked by NASA. Millions more tiny fragments of old satellites and spent rocket…

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Liveris, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Dow Chemical Company, is known for championing of the importance of manufacturing in the world economy.
“[Liveris and the AMC] will be tasked with ways to bring industry and manufacturing back to America,” Trump said on Friday.
The Dow Chemical Company is a…

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Raytheon will provide repair support for 10 weapon replaceable assemblies of AN/ALR-67(V) radar warning receivers for F/A-18 jets, according to the release.
The contract spans four years and has a one one-year option period, which if exercised, brings its total estimated value to $128.1 million, the release noted.
The Boeing, formerly McDonnell-Douglas…

WASHINGTON —
The Senate headed to a vote averting a government shutdown at midnight Friday as coal-state Democrats beat a tactical retreat and promised to continue their fight next year for months-long health care benefits for retired miners.
“We had no intention of shutting down the government,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., adding that Democrats…

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said that Democrats were going to provide the votes to pass a short-term government spending bill, according to Politico.
The bill needs sixty votes to pass in the Senate, the report stated. The needed votes are coming hours before the midnight deadline,…

Hijacked by armed extremists, the so-called moderate opposition has effectively ceased to exist in Syria, Russia’s UN ambassador told the General Assembly. The forum was passing a resolution calling for the cessation of hostilities in the war-torn country.
On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted 122 to 13 on a non-binding resolution demanding…

PENTAGON —
A top U.S. Army general says his forces “may have to make some adjustments” to upcoming joint exercises in the Philippines if the new government no longer wants to conduct military combat readiness exercises.
In an interview with VOA, Lt. General Stephen Lanza, the commander of the Army’s I Corps who leads several…

WASHINGTON —
President-elect Donald Trump’s Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers, alarming employees and advisors.
The memo sent to the Energy Department on Tuesday and seen by Reuters on Friday,…